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Publication Date: June 5, 2026 - 14:26
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Ontario spent $465M more on OSAP last year. 95% of that went to private career college students, docs show
June 5, 2026
When Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government drastically cut student assistance grants earlier this year, it cited "unsustainable" costs, but new figures show nearly all of the recent growth was among career college students. Opposition critics say that points to a problem of the government's own making, and the solution did not have to penalize students at universities and publicly funded colleges.
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Gad Saad says he is leaving Canada due to rising antisemitism, and the tax bill on his way out has left him numb. Saad, a professor of marketing at Concordia University and author of the best-selling book Suicidal Empathy, posted Thursday night about what an “exit tax” would cost him to leave Quebec and Canada. “Following a very difficult meeting with my accountant, I just found out how much it is going to cost me,” Saad said in a post on X. “No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner. I’m genuinely numb. I’m speechless.” Saad says two...
June 20, 2026 - 06:30 | Mason Kossak | National Post
A consensus has formed, in recent years, that womanhood consists of fending off suitors. Resentful men, perhaps hearing one narrative after the next of how to be a woman is to be drooled over, see this as a form of female privilege. “Any young woman who is even moderately attractive,” wrote critic William Deresiewicz in a 2023 Tablet essay, “will be courted, complimented, paid attention to, by women as well as men. Older men will buy them things. People will hang on their words even when they aren’t interesting and laugh at their jokes even when they aren’t funny. They will have entry...
June 20, 2026 - 06:30 | Phoebe Maltz Bovy | Walrus
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question: "Around the world, governments have taken different approaches to online safety. In the United Kingdom, new age-verification requirements for adult...
June 20, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
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